Which famous writer of Don Quixote once lived in the Province of Valladolid in northern Spain, alongside other Spanish literary greats, and also fought in a great naval battle in 1571 and later wrote an account of it that was used as the libretto for a festival in the village of Los Haro?

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Miguel de Cervantes. Miguel de Cervantes, author of Don Quixote, lived for a time in the Province of Valladolid alongside writers such as José Zorrilla and Miguel Delibes. His own account of the 1571 battle later became the source for the Los Haro libretto.